I wonder how many of those things need to be planted in Times Square, Malls and non fly over country before the libs join us in reality and realize the world is a dangerous place and we all can't just get along.  That sometimes our soldiers have to kill a lot of bad guys to get their attention.

One would think Sept. 11th would have been enough but Libs seem to need a lot of retraining.

hmm, tea baggers first suspicious characters! hide the earl gray!

and someone kick math sez, just cuz he'she needs it.

Posted by: gebrauchshund at May 01, 2010 11:15 PM (d7k0J)

Its the Great White Way, symbolic heart of NYC, and a major tourist trap that is to be avoided. 

"It is odd that Ace's standard party materials were found in the car."

No pudding; he's in the clear.

Great. Now we've got motherfucking car bombs in our motherfucking cities.

And the 'hood in your brain.

Times Square,Theatre district is one of the most heavily opoulated areas of Manhattan, mostly with tourists, this would have been a major disaster.

The first World Trade Center Bombing in 1993 was a Ryder truck filled with explosives and parked in an underground garage. Killed 6 people.

That was before Oklahoma City.

Any word from Prez Toonces yet on this?

I'm glad no one was hurt.

Now, how effing incompetent do you have to be to NOT be able to construct a working car bomb?

And now a prayer of thanks...

Dear Lord, thank you for usually making the enemies of America flaming retards.

#42

Beat me to it.  That whole Iraq deal might have killed off the A- Team.

Lion King - Lion - Africa - Kenyan wildlife parks - Kenya - Obama

King - President - Obama

We still love Teh Won.

Times Square is the symbolic heart of NYC. If the bomb had gone off as people were heading to or from the Broadway shows it would've injured or killed a large number. It is a miracle that something major hasn't happened in Times Square.

Speculation is always so much more fun when there is no concrete information to limit our imagination. So in that spirit, if this was some AQ in Ameriki type group with actual ties to AQ groups in the Mideast, wouldn't they likely have some expertise in building car bombs? 

Wow, beaten to the punch like three times. I don't think real fast, and I type even more slower.

seriously, how much sympathy could any "Cause" become on a wordl scale if you attack Lion king. and those young parents with their  bright eyed toddlers?  g-d i hate this crap.

Senior police and Whitehall sources said that the failed attempt to inflict mass murder in the capital was the work of al-Qaida or those inspired by its ideology.

"You only have to read past cases of those convicted for terrorism to realise they have been plotting to blow up nightclubs and putting gas cylinder bombs in cars," one senior source said.

Counter-terrorism sources said the devices found in two Mercedes cars - which contained gas cylinders, petrol and nails - were similar to car bombs used in Iraq.

#58 read #44 already connected the dots for Olby Mathews and Maddow. 

#63

Nice.

Posted by: curious at May 01, 2010 11:48 PM (p302b)

Wait, what?  Times Square on a warm spring Saturday night is crowded?  Whoever would have guessed?  Hmm... I wonder if Al Qaeda has heard this particular trivia item -- it might affect their targeting decisions, eh?

Not snarking at you, curious - snarking at the "federal official" and the MSM for being so willing to deny the obvious truth.

The package did not explode, and officials said they did not know whether it was related to terrorism.
well cause everyone puts a 3 propane  and 2 gas .tanks in their vehicles, for the saturday night barbeque in MANHATTAN!, where the laws are so strict and you can't flick your bic..

sure.

Nothing to see here.  Go back to the NBA playoffs.  Hockey if you don't like black folks. 

(huffington post.com!)

Posted by: arminius at May 01, 2010 11:52 PM (HDeyN)"

They are saying that it is a possible IED?   Put on MSNBC they are covering it live.

Standard MO for an Islamic terrorism...   a second car bomb had been found...

Exactly, well portrayed in a recent Vince Flynn book.

Oh puleeze!

The system worked. Everything is fine.

There is no way the burning package ina car in down town NY is at all related to terrorism. It's all just a lone actor of a lousey practical joke just trrying to gat a lau,,, what?  There may have been a Tea Party sticker on a nearby car?!?

TERRORIST!! IT'S A TERRORIST FUCKING ATTACK BY THE HOME GROWN REDNECK RACIST FUCKING TERRORIST!!

Posted by: Math sez at May 01, 2010 11:12 PM (I+7Zv)

The actuary table says yes.

Posted by: JeffP at May 01, 2010 11:57 PM (G1AXB)

Hey, I was busy writing another book for Ob..., uh, I was watching TV.

Posted by: cheshirecat at May 01, 2010 11:57 PM (JH1bV)"

That would be horrible, even on a Saturday night families with kids go to the show, it is almost always packed cause it is nice and clean and entertaining.

They are saying that there was a white powder in the car.

Not for anything, but in NYC a truck has to have that diamond shaped warning thing if they are carrying something explosive.   It's really odd that someone would just have that kind of stuff stored in their car on a very hot day.

well, they are still on the look out for tea bagging- ied ,  weildin ---well propane tank might fit.  but can anyone afford a parking place in Manhattan  tea baggers (rednecks, gun toters) afford a parking place in Manhatta, i heard it's perty steep 

again to nyorkers i'm just blowing off steam and am glad you're safe, also to those in chicago.

Wow, somebody just got in under the wire. As of Memorial Day, the great, the just, the merciful Bloomberg has declared Times Square to be a no-car zone. After that it'll be just satchel charges and bike bombs.

How about a salt & fat bomb, set off by tobacco and anthropogenic carbon? Hey, does the Times still have an office on Times Square? A news stand, maybe?

I really do not care what happens to, or in, New York. I had exactly one friend move there; she died there. I kind of put myself out to help get heavy equipment there after 9/11, and the year hadn't ended before Nyaakers were mocking me us for that. They may now, and for eternity, just kiss my ass.

All big cities everywhere are shitholes, or are about to become shitholes. The task of the rest of us is to feed their gaping, unproductive maw. They get all a-goin' over their art & culture, except 98% of the denizens never go to their much-touted Culture Centres, and when you're done ruling out museums of non-trendy art, which small cities do better, and classical music, which everybody now takes as a joke since it was nationalized (and small cities do better), what you're left with is the newest and gheyest Broadway shows. Keep them, please; consign them if you wish to the dustbin of history. Fie on the goddamn place. They have no use for me or my way of life, nor I for theirs.

Open season, Mahmoud, as far as I give a shit.   

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 02, 2010 12:02 AM (c0A3e)

Don't forget, the effectiveness of an attack is more directly related to how it dampens society and brings us to a halt.  Our monetary and economic situation is so fragile that a slight disturbance could escalate easily into a full-blown catastrophe.  And everything done in Washington has only made our position even more precarious and sensitive.

#91

Fear monger.

Fear monger.

Posted by: New York Liberal at May 02, 2010 12:07 AM (8OTio)

I was a nominee for "Fear Reviewer of The Year" in 2009, thank you. 

Hey, you know what would be a good idea?  Let's shut down Gitmo, dump on our allies, bow to our enemies, rag on our military, handcuff the CIA and FBI, set up show trials for waterboarding, let anybody run across our border, waste our security resources checking every person that wants to fly someplace including little old grandmothers in wheelchairs, not develop our own energy resources and keep sending our money to countries that hate and want to destroy us.  Yeah, that ought to work. 

What we tried that already? Sorry thats all I got.

Any NYC morons out there?

Is 'One Beacon Court' in a decent area?

Posted by: Waterhouse at May 01, 2010 11:58 PM (tVyY+)

Led, no doubt, by our Agnostic-in-Chief.

#95

Amen Brother.

#101

Maybe, ya know, we should legalize it brah?

But, the REAL QUESTION is, did Barack and Michelle's favorite restaurant get damaged?

I just think it's so great when they have a date night!

#104

Me too!

Anyone know where Purple Avenger is?

Wasn't he setting out to do electrical work earlier?

If they find an orange extension cord hooked up to a space heater in the vehicle, I think we've found our man...

curious, I just checked the Chicago Sun Times website and it said the package contained a pipe. I canÂ’t decide what reality is anymore.

#109

100k sound about right?

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 02, 2010 12:19 AM (c0A3e)

Her botox has all seeped into her brain, at this point.  The face is clean, if frozen in an unnatural, grotesque state.

How many times do we expect to keep being lucky and dodging this shit.

About 25 years ago, I heard this story on PBS, believe it or not.  I'll give you the short version.  Remember when military, diplomats and clergymen were being kidnapped in Lebanon?  Three Russian diplomats were kidnapped.  The KGB found one of the kidnappers brothers.  They castrated him and sent his balls to the kidnappers along with the message they could send the rest of him if they wanted. 

One of the diplomates was killed.  The other two were released.  There were no more acts of terrorism on Russians for a long time. 

  Waterboarding is not torture.  Terrorists understand power.  The people who support them understand power.  They also know our government lacks the will to do what is neccessary to keep us safe.

Trust me guys, you do not want every yahoo with their own stockpile of botulism.   I tried that a few years ago and have not been able to move my face since.

#117

Soros is paying overtime on a Saturday night huh?

CC appears to be uptown:

Comedy Central

1775 Broadway # 10th
New York, NY 10019-1903

curious, well I do think it is weird that a bunch of things are happening in cities around the country right now. Start with the water main break in Boston and go from there. I actually checked our local news too, but weÂ’re situation normal here.

Allah, Hot Air:

What makes me nervous is the use of propane. Remember that London bombing plot three years ago, in which jihadis tried — and failed — to set off a bunch of car bombs around the city?  

The car bombs were similar to highly destructive explosives used in Iraq and could have killed hundreds of people, U.S. and British officials told NBC News. British officials warned that the country was facing a “serious and sustained” terrorist threat…

Authorities believe [the first car] was intended to be set off by remote control by a cell phone found inside. The cell phone had received at least two calls, which should have detonated several gallons of gasoline, but when the calls came in, the bomb failed to go off, the official said.

Had it done so, that blast then would have ignited six to eight tanks of propane in a mist to make a fuel-air explosion, creating a fireball the size of a small house and propelling 18 to 20 boxes of roofing nails around a large area at bullet speed, counterterrorism officials said.

Fuel-air bombs are hugely destructive, as this harrowing Danger Room article published after the London plot broke made all too clear. A fuel-air bomb properly detonated in Times Square on a Saturday night likely would have killed hundreds of people. If thatÂ’s what this was — and the feds evidently arenÂ’t sure yet, despite reports of “fireworks” going on in the back seat and someone running away from the vehicle — then thereÂ’s a seriously dangerous individual running around NYC right now. Stay tuned. 

I have had my head in the books for finals....what was the Boston Water incident?

It's probably on the news pages somewhere. A big fucking pipe ruptured and supposedly you have to boil water before you can drink it.

CBS update, six minutes ago:

Police evacuated buildings and cleared streets of thousands of tourists around New York City's Times Square on Saturday after finding an apparent car bomb in a parked SUV.

FBI agents are on the scene with the New York Police Department, and the matter is being taken seriously, said Paul Bresson, head of the FBI's public affairs office at bureau headquarters in Washington.

new hyperlink

Here's a link for the Boston water issue:

http://tinyurl.com/2f5sud3

Fox is finally covering it.

Wow, they really fell down on the job.

The pipe acted stupidly.

Ha ha smartass.

I pegged you for the Times Square bombing attempt above.

Start spreading the fatwa, I'm leaving today
I want to be a part of it--New Dark, New Age
These egalitarian shoes, are longing to stray
Right to the very heart of shit--New Dark, New Age

I want to wake up in a city without freedom of speech!
And find I've converted the infidels--I'm king of a trash-heap

These civilized blues, are going away
I'm gonna make a brand new start of it--in a New Dark Age!
If I can convert 'em then, I'll convert 'em anywhen
It's up to you--New Dark, New Age!

New Dark, New Age
I want to wake up in an age with no gap in church and state!
To find all women obey, know their place,
Sufferage for men only, ruling over a trash-heap.

These civilized blues, are slouching away
I'm gonna make a brand new start at hate--in a New Dark Age!
If I can kill 'em then, I'll kill 'em anywhen
It's up to you--New Dark, New Age!

Posted by: kawfytawk at May 02, 2010 12:44 AM (NPvz/)

And, as he and his gang start taking advantage of this crisis (as they have been making crises up to take advantage of, so far) there are probably going to be a lot of people who REALLY wish that his eligibility had been checked, instead of laughed at by the silly few.  When there is this much power at stake, no one should be allowed to hide any silly little documents - no matter what idiotic reason he comes up with.  This is very serious stuff and too many are still treating it all like a game.

#150

You gotta be kiddin me? 

BREAKING

NYPD find several bags of salt in car, cordon off area.

#159

Salt?

Unleash the feds. 

Meanwhile, what is our Commander In Chief doing?

The First Yuckster at the White House Correspondents Dinner tonight taunted Jay Leno before The Tonight Show host took the podium. "I am glad that the only person whose ratings fell more than mine is here tonight. Great to see you, Jay. I'm also glad that I'm speaking first -- because we've all seen what happens when somebody takes the time slot after Leno."

 "I happen to know that my approval ratings are still very high in the country of my birth."

"We know what happens in Arizona when you don't have an ID. ... Adios amigos," Obama quipped.

Obama said he hears he's popular on Twitter and Facebook. "Or as Sarah Palin call it, socialized media," he said.

There's no reason to suspect terrorism in a water line break. Talk to anybody in civil engineering, and they'll tell you every large water and sewage system in the country is on the ragged edge every day. Simple age, and normal freeze/thaw cycles (not to mention abnormal ones, or the stresses of conservation) set those mains popping off like a Claymore ambush.

Our forefathers, a hundred years back, left us an infrastructure that was the wonder of the world. Then, for most of the century, we took a vacation from engineering history, until every system was overloaded, indispensable, and so poorly maintained that many cities have lost their charts. We've terrorized ourselves on this one. It's a marvel any of them don't break. 

And yet, send your typical city a hundred mil in stimulus, and they'll put up a Kidz Kreativity Klub and re-plant the municipal flower garden.

Talk to anybody in civil engineering, and they'll tell you every large water and sewage system in the country is on the ragged edge every day.

Years ago I was managing a place that practically had to shut down because they came out to lay some new big water pipes. Digging, digging, digging for days and days. Finally, done. Then they had to come back out and redo the whole thing because they'd set the pipes down and they were an inch or so off.

Probably not related to what you said; it just made me think of that.

A man ran away, but no description?!

He looka like ... a... man! (Mad TV)

#126

But Viacom(the parent company of comedy central) is located at 1515 broadway....between 44th and 45th....in the heart of Times ASquare.

Posted by: Lucas, Prince of Darkness at May 02, 2010 01:03 AM (tVyY+)

Hey! Why you guys looking at me funny?

I keep hearing, to paraphrase, "no reason to suspect it's a terrorist action." 

Yeah.  It's just a car bomb in Times Square.

We don't know what happened yet.

Just to be safe, though, we're shutting down the Internet and talk radio stations.

Anyone know, if the detonator failed if the tanks would have blown up tomorrow anyway in a hot locked car?

Could a car sit that long in Times Square?

I don't know. Any NYC morons have an answer?

Na, we just did plenty of experiments while growing up and know what works and what doesn't.  Pretty much every country kid who grew up back in the 50's and 60's played with lots of seriously dangerous shit.  The ones that survived that test went on to build moon rockets, space shuttles, and shit like that.

When I was 10, back in the 60's, I made Molotov cocktails with a friend based on a movie we saw. We threw them into a storm sewer nearby. I've beeen more productive since then.

Only an inch?

It was. The engineer in charge of the project came into the store and told me. I remember because it seemed like such an insignificant measurement.

 Anyone know, if the detonator failed if the tanks would have blown up tomorrow anyway in a hot locked car?

Summary of Mythbusters episode, No Pain, No Gain:

The build team tested the myth that a propane tank being stored in a garage became a rocket and soared 150 feet in the air when the garage caught fire. So, will a propane tank turn into a rocket in a fire? I had my doubts about this one. And, as it turns out, under normal circumstances, no it wonÂ’t.

Propane tanks have pressure release valves. After building a shed, filling it with wood, charcoal and gasoline, adding a propane tank and setting the whole thing on fire, the pressure release valve did exactly what it was supposed to do and let the pressure out gradually. No explosion, no rocket. Of course theyÂ’re not going to leave it there.

The team headed back to the workshop to disable the safety relief valve to simulate an old tank with a broken valve. Back at the bomb range they heat the modified tank over a fire and after 10 minutes the tank exploded. But, still no rocket.

Teabaggers

This has jihadi written all over it.

Domestic terrorists wouldn't bother doing this; they'd choose other targets.

This has jihadi Jew written all over it.

Domestic terrorists wouldn't bother doing this; they'd choose other targets.

Mo better.

I think I've seen this movie before...someone faked the pipe weld x-rays tests.

Lemmon was good in that flick, though. Everything else sucked, but Lemmon was good.

Bless GW Bush for arraigning to have the Terrorist A-Team meet us in Iraq for an away game, instead of us taking them on in a home game.

I wonder why the terrorist keep trying to hit NYC. Have they never been to SF? Not that I want them to hit us anywhere, but it seems to me that SF has a lot more to recommend it the terrorist ideal symbol of American depravity. I can completely understand why they don't go after LA, since that would result in a series of very anti Terrorist movies for world wide distribution.

ToysrUs is on 44th street. IÂ’m confused, where was the SUV parked?

Reports say the vehicle is parked  on 45th street and 7th ave.   Mapquest has that at the corner of the Viacom International building.....the parent company of comedy central.

I was just looking at Google Earth and street view, and I didn't see any where to park in that block.

Well thatÂ’s just a pretty long block to see all the way to the other end of, especially on Saturday night and crowded with people. But, I suppose if he came out the door of ToysrUs, which is in the middle of the block, and immediately turned north and there was a parting of the crowd at kid level, and the SUV was parked exactly at the corner, then perhapsÂ…

Curious,

There are prime financial market centers in other American cities. SF has critical financial functionaries as I understand it.

I'm guessing this may have a interesting affect on John Stewart. Didn't he just do a big F_U dance aimed at the muzzies who threatened the writers of South Park? And this was right outside his work where one might expect his audience members to be milling about?

I wonder if Mr LeboerrrStewart will be as bold in his next show. And if he is, I wonder if he will continue to be as reliable a defender of Obama's d insistence on removing all references to Islam in it's discussion on terrorist acts.

As per the wires, I would guess that the primary ignition was probably meant to be via the wires. Then when that didn't happen the perp was trying to manually ignite it when the two mounted NYPD lady cops saw him trying to get re trigger it.

So then I wonder when it was supposed to have gone off, if something on the Marque was to have been the trigger.

Posted by: Shooter at May 02, 2010 12:45 AM (zfRju)

These days, the accounting houses of Broadway hits don't have much cash on hand.  Most Broadway ticket sales are by credit card, and the best way to rob the accounting houses is by hacking their computers.

I wonder if the propane tanks were filled with propane.

I guess that's all I'll say about that.

Next up, propane tank bans.

Hey, the bill of rights don't garuntee your right to BBQ.

"This is a bomb. This is a car bomb. A crude device that includes gasoline, propane and is wired together," NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said.

"There were explosive elements, including powder, gasoline, propane and some kind of electrical wires attached to a clock," Browne said. "No motive has been identified."

Posted by: railwriter at May 02, 2010 12:25 AM (daRzV

This kind of thinking is why we cannot win this war on terror. Too many fucking people are playing by Hollywood's rules(I wont lower myself to THEIR standards).  When the next 9-11 happens, at least you were travelling the high road, Railwriter, you smug fuck.

"Heroic cops stopped a car bomb from blowing up in the heart of Times Square Saturday night, officials told the Daily News.

Two female cops patrolling the area noticed a man fumbling with something in the back of a Nissan SUV parked on the southwest corner of 45th St. and Broadway about 7 p.m. The man saw the officers looking and took off running.

The two cops went to the car and saw smoke, clusters of canisters and heard something fizzing, a source said. The quick-acting cops called for backup, and the bomb squad was on the way as the Crossroads of the World was evacuated."

Southwest corner of 45th St. and Broadway

Thank you, finally the location makes sense with all of the other details.

Dear God its hard to listen to the fox news babe speak endlessly and say nothing over and over and over and over.

Word.

One of the early shots of the Pathfinder shows it up next to a bank of phones and a cut stone wall.  The wall looks like the Minskoff Theater.  Google doesn't show a bank of phones or a red awning, but the pictures might be old.  You can see in the street view where the t-shirt vendors are, right at the northeast corner of the theater. I bet the awning was built right there, over a ticket office or something.

245

Next up, propane tank bans.

***********************

Dang!  Can propane accessories be far behind? 

Posted by: curious at May 02, 2010 01:59 AM 

All SUVs in the city will be suspended for a week for smoking

I love how, when the muzzies attack, they hit blue areas.

This is a setup. 

They've been trying to say that Tea Party = Tim McVeigh for a month now.

And now car bomb in NYC, that fizzled out.  What do you bet it gets traced back to a "Tea Party" person?  Good thing noone was killed, but sorry, any moron (and not the good kind) AQ guy could crank off some gasoline and propane.  Seriously, who can't set gas on fire? 

It would immediately discredit the Tea Party movement.  And immediately change the narrative that Muslims are terrorists. 

Glenn Beck has been warning about it for months.  Not this specific event, but that Tea Partiers were being set up. 

I am not saying Barack Obama did this.  But people who LIKE him did.

Obama just issued an Presidential Executive Order banning drilling for oil in New York City. Wait, what?

"This is a bomb. This is a car bomb. A crude device that includes gasoline, propane and is wired together," NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said.

"There were explosive elements, including powder, gasoline, propane and some kind of electrical wires attached to a clock," Browne said. "No motive has been identified."

Posted by: curious at May 02, 2010 02:07 AM (p302b)

I'll take a wild guess that the motive was they wanted to kill infidels...just sayin'

I don't believe this shit. The Obamanites are calling the oil spill unprecedented.

Do these idiots know any other words in the English language?

They (especially the MSM) pick up on popular words and they recycle them.  My personal most hated word they use is horrific.  Their vocabulary, among anything else generated by their brains and spewed out of their mouths, is unoriginal and parroted. 

Nearly every movie that took place in New York in the past 30 years had some identifying shot of the Twin Towers.  To many of us who have never been to NYC, it immediately said "This is New York."

Yeah but those pricks couldn't wait to go back and edit the Towers out of a lot of those movies. Almost like "Oh well...here's the new skyline! Shhh."

But the world will love us when we hold the KMS trials in NY right?

Lone Wolf Domestic.

Feds will have him within 48 hours.

Over at HA AP has himself in a tizzy that this could have been a fuel-air explosive.

Not a chance.  Propane tanks in a fire might - might - create a BLEVE, which will make a big fireball and while there is nothing good about that it is a far cry from an FAE.

Real thermobarics need a high order explosive to create the proper dispesion of vapor and air before secondary detonation can occur (and getting that to occur at just the right moment is damn sophisticated.)  This was not a homemade daisy cutter because there is no such thing.  If you can make an FAE at home it means you already have access to real explosives.

This bomb design does not work, yet people keep using it. Why?

I would not call some propane cylinders in a car a "fuel air explosive." That's not even close to being  a real fuel-air bomb. A true fuel air detonation is a technically tricky thing to arrange, and whoever did this can't even figure out how to ignite a gas can.

Even if the propane cylinders had ignited, it would just be an incendiary device.

I mention once again - repeated attempts using the same design, even though it doesn't work. Why?

Over at HA AP has himself in a tizzy that this could have been a fuel-air explosive...

HA AP is a gay man and gay men know nothing about bomb making. Ask him if pedicures are dangerous and maybe you'll receive an informed answer.

O/T (since there's no headline news/open thread yet). 

The photo that ruined a career:  http://tinyurl.com/2eyd8ce

Nobody could be this stupid by accident.

Little Miss Spellcheck, thank you for the information and IÂ’m sorry you werenÂ’t able to get home last night, though happy there were some fringe benefits for you!

Also, I appreciate the description of the exact spot where the SUV was, it adds a lot of important detail.

Posted by: Pelayo at May 02, 2010 09:58 AM (C8qIl)

-----------------------------------------

No.

Gasoline, Propane, Fireworks, Gunpowder.

All-American BBQ.

its outside aBank of America office right?

Do you think Obama's demonization of wall street incited this attack

No.

Gasoline, Propane, Fireworks, Gunpowder.

All-American BBQ.

Practically identical to the Doctor Fry held at Glasgow Airport.  Also, this type of construction has been used in Iraqi car bombs.

As for who did it, it was certainly a teabagger.  I don't give a shit if his name is Abdullah al-Salad el-Islam, you can be certain he's a teabagger.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 02, 2010 10:48 AM (qSRHZ)

They'll get this guy, or more likely guys, pretty quick, I'd reckon.  Not exactly a criminal mastermind.

Heckuva job Nappy!

was really upset about this all night, couldn't sleep.

so grateful to NYkers for staying alert after all this time . I'll never understand trying to kill people that you don't know, have never hurt you , just people - children , parents, and so on.

anyway glad none were  harmed, stay safe people. the vendor is a hero as are the police etc.

good news - real explosives are apparently pretty hard to come by in this country. 

Guess again.  Nevermind cooking up things like peroxides, there are many, many other suitable alternatives available.  Back the days of BBSs there was plenty of information freely available.  It's not nearly as in your face now, but it does not take a whole lot of searching around to find some of it.  If you can figure out how to cook meth, and obtain suitable components then you can easily make your own primary explosives. 

Thankfully the people doing these things are well and truly retarded.  

"something resembling an IED"

Allow me to help now: It's an IED.

(Three simple questions, lest we jump to conclusions: Is it improvised? It is explosive? Is it a device? Answer no to any of these and I'll take it all back.)

374 Obama's response will be to give NY back to the Dutch.

Oh, hell no!

Wait, let's rethink that!

Guys this was clearly one of those non Terrorist Car bombs.

Now will the police question the owners of the website that threatenend Matt and Trey?

I know I'm old, but threats against someone's life used to be against the law.

Yasmina Reza, whose origins are Iranian.

Just like the guys from Deep Dish!

RE: 373

Federal officials quickly ruled out that the material found in the Pathfinder was an IED. "Based on the Health Care Reform legislation, it is not a "device" per Section 33-469.34 as it is not subject to the device tax."

385

 AP's unrequited interest in Kirstin Powers has been often mentioned  on Hotair, so he's probably straight.

Federal officials quickly ruled out that the material found in the Pathfinder was an IED. "Based on the Health Care Reform legislation, it is not a "device" per Section 33-469.34 as it is not subject to the device tax."

I LOLed

“We are treating it as if it could be a potential terrorist attack,” Janet Napolitano the Homeland Security secretary, told CNN, one of several television appearances she made on Sunday morning.

could be?

what else could it be? a puppy rainbow attack?

wtf.

Why is it that everyone who sees a propane tank assumes it's full of propane?

What the fuck is that? A chance to show everyone your irrational hatred of Allahpundit and gays in one post? Unfuck'nbelievable.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 02, 2010 10:28 AM (GZitp)

There are very good reasons to hate Allahpundit. Believe it.

Great. Now we've got motherfucking car bombs in our motherfucking cities.

And the 'hood in your brain.

Posted by: Rewrite! at May 01, 2010 11:26 PM (d7Px0)

In the 20's somebody parked a horse drawn WAGON BOMB in front of the stock exchange. They used dynamite and cast iron window sash weights.  The horses and a couple dozen people died. There were parts everywhere. The granite facade still bears the scars.

Evildoing folks back in the day made shit that functioned. Nowadays they don't do as well.

All kinds of awesome, new record for sniper

http://tinyurl.com/2c3l4ac

Practically identical to the Doctor Fry held at Glasgow Airport.  Also, this type of construction has been used in Iraqi car bombs.

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Identical except for the lack of electronic detonators.

Maybe the fireworks were supposed to accomplish that task?

Also, this lady at the deli counter is one surly asshole. It's like the DMV with coldcuts.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 02, 2010 12:26 PM (mHQ7T)

It's New York

Also, this lady at the deli counter is one surly asshole. It's like the DMV with coldcuts.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 02, 2010 01:02 PM (wZyXJ)

you owe me a keyboard jeff

Bomb found in Pittsburgh PA

http://tinyurl.com/242umme

Posted by: eman at May 02, 2010 01:20 PM (p+Ba1)

It's a cabal of teabaggers!!

Posted by: Methane at May 02, 2010 11:54 AM (4XzsU)

Fucking piker

Posted by: Blazer at May 02, 2010 01:22 PM (t72+4)

It had to run long enough to actually get it there

Posted by: Methane at May 02, 2010 11:54 AM (4XzsU)

Fucking piker

Posted by: Carbon Monoxide at May 02, 2010 01:24 PM (erIg9)

Ahem.

443 OMG...Nora on CNBC just called Michael Steele "Notorious GOP"

Obama called Mike that last night.

Posted by: curious at May 02, 2010 01:28 PM (p302b)

Posted by: eman at May 02, 2010 01:20 PM

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Agreed. 

These incidents might be diversions for a larger attack.

Bomb was in a microwave oven.  Timing mechanism was a yellow Peep^®

They should've just did what I did last week: put a container of hot fudge ice cream topping in the oven and accidentally turn it on for a minute longer than necessary. The resulting eruption and flows of hot fudge lava nearly destroyed the entire neighborhood.

Posted by: Vic at May 02, 2010 01:34 PM (QrA9E)

Bomb was in a microwave oven.  Timing mechanism was a yellow Peep^®

The Explosive Charge was provided by 12-Cans of 'Mountain Dew Berry Blast!' that had been in a Paint Shaker for hours.

A 'Bart Simpson' is the being sought for questioning.

http://tinyurl.com/29ckllb

Lone Wolf Schumer

hornyDelphinidaePuppehtOFF!

(now in a pump!)

they are saying paki taliban are claiming responsiblity for the ts attempt.

i knew i should have tipped my cab driver in new york more money.

471 That Pittsburgh bomb sounds kinda sad. In a microwave oven?

 Someone overheated their tinfoil hat ?

STOP THE PRESSES!

Barry arrives in the Gulf! Oil leak to stop completely in mere minutes! Barry saves the world AGAIN! Using nothing but his awesomey awesomeness powers!

Posted by: George Orwell at May 02, 2010 01:40 PM (AZGON)

RE: Microwave bomb at marathon

Why do I get the feeling this wasn't a bomb but rather one of the morons showed up to see the race and brought the microwave along to heat up his sammich?

Apparently, Jerry Rivers will cover all angles of the car bomb in NYC on his show later today.

How long before Jerry Rivers blames the Arizona immigration law for the attempted bombing?

It's New York

Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Professional Debate Team at May 02, 2010 01:16 PM (erIg9)

I'm jealous of NJ these days.

I'm jealous of NJ these days.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 02, 2010 01:50 PM (mHQ7T)

seriously

There was pasta in the microwave? I assume there was more to it than that, but if not that is kind of funny. I mean who puts a microwave on a sidewalk with pasta in it? One of the runners that wants a mid run carb boost? And where did they plug it in?

How long till the media starts telling the bombers what they did wrong?

Chez Spellcheck is a half-block west of this little adventure, so I wasn't able to return to my apartment last night. I sought refuge elsewhere. Fringe benefits ensued.

Ms.Spellcheck, Please inform as to when you are ready for your second De-Briefing on said event.  Our office eagerly awaits your report and any shared intel, therein.

.FWIW, the car bomb had stolen plates and the VIN was gone. There will be identifiers though....unless the car was build with scrapped parts through and through. Terrorists just aren't that skilled...the crap they make is crap, even the Kazinsky stuff was amatuer hour.

Getting caught up here....

So the t-shirt guy alerts the cops and they run around the smoking SUV, then move people back and call the fire dept.  NYFD arrives and deploys a robot....

And the reason this didn't immediately turn into a deadly explosion is.... what?  Because it didn't go off?  Because these bastards don't know how to properly set bombs in shoes/underwear/cars?

Oh dear God.

I was just looking at Google Earth and street view, and I didn't see any where to park in that block.

Posted by: rdbrewer at May 02, 2010 01:38 AM (hNRKU)

Something tells me this guy wasn't worried about getting a ticket.

I just had the most entertaining 30 minutes reading through the comments.  Leno and BO could learn a LOT about comedy reading these.  Thanks everyone!